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Tavenend

Fiction EN ↓ 6 episodes

Tavenend is an investigative horror audio drama, presented as the personal audio log of an unnamed Investigator obsessed with a single, isolated town. His mission: to document the strange and paranormal events saturating Tavenend, Cornwall, by collecting, restoring, and digitising a vast archive of "found-footage" audio recordings. Each episode is a new case file. The Investigator introduces the recording, plays the self-contained, terrifying audio in its entirety, and then returns to analyse its contents. For fans of The Magnus Archives, Limetown, and The Black Tapes, The Tavenend Tapes is a...

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#5: The Stenographer’s Last Words 18.12.2025 11:20

Archive Item 76 concerns the destruction of St. Cleer Police Station in 1983. The official report claimed no survivors. That was inaccurate. One woman, the station stenographer, Judith Hallowell walked out of Interview Room 1 moments before the entire building ignited from within. She gave a witness statement during medical observation, describing a heat event that began inside the bodies of those...

#4: The Giant's Heart 10.12.2025 9:48

This archive item contains a single continuous field recording recovered from the crushed Zoom H6 I removed from Dr. Arlo Finch’s possession after he was found wandering the A30 in a catatonic state. What begins as a routine ambience survey at Castilly Henge quickly becomes a sequence of escalating pressure anomalies. Finch detects infrasonic pulses rising from the ditch, rhythmic fluctuations in...

#3: The Allotment 05.12.2025 7:53

The dictaphone in question was brought to me after being found on the coastal path, wrapped inside an old waterproof coat. Inside the coat were a few gardening tools and a pair of boots marked with dried mud and salt. The microcassette inside the recorder is labelled in a shaky hand: "Carter - Allotment Notes" and will become case #0003. Only later did I trace the recording back to the eastern all...

#2: The Cold Caller 24.11.2025 8:16

This is Case File #0002. The recording you are about to hear is... well, it's something different. Not a bodycam, not a professional recording, but a standard microcassette I found in a box of old office supplies from a car boot sale. The label just says "Home." It's an answering machine tape. A time capsule of domestic life from the late 1990s, full of the everyday messages we all used to leave....

#1: The Silent Tide 13.11.2025 8:24

This is Case File #0001. The recording you are about to hear is the first I've chosen to digitise for this collection. It's a corrupted digital audio file from the bodycam of a Police Constable Evans, recorded on the night of what the press officially dismissed as 'The Silent Tide Incident', a freak tide, a tragic statistical anomaly. This tape... this tape is the truth. You will hear PC Evans's f...

#ZERO: The Archive 06.11.2025 4:41

Investigator's log, November 6th, 2025. Case File #ZERO. Commencement of the Public Record. The evidence, in this instance, is my own. The first reel of a new public log, created as I begin the monumental task of digitising my entire collection of recordings. For years, the archive has existed in silence, a chaotic hoard of tapes detailing events that defy explanation. In this initial entry, I sta...